The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
A multitude of small delights constitute happiness
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Evil comes up softly like a flower.
The beautiful is always bizarre.
Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.
One can only forget about time by making use of it.
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
I am the vampire at my own veins.
We are all born marked for evil.
Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
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